I know it’s wayyyyy old-fashioned, I still buy the type of beans you have to soak overnight if you want to use them for soup the next day. There is something precious and methodological about the whole ritual. I have been longing to make this bean soup for some time. When I finally got around to soaking the beans and getting ready to [...]
Summer decided to say hello for a few days here in the Netherlands. I’m told for the rest of the week the temperatures will reach over 30 degrees before it starts to cloud up again come Saturday. To celebrate I decided to make this little dish with the freshest pasta I could find aside from making it myself. It’s from the site www.userealbutter.com – occasionally I see [...]
Hated green beans as a child, love them now. This morning I had to cycle to the end of the earth to find a KFC (I have an exam project on Yum Foods and part of it is sampling the colonel’s menu). I’m no food snob, but really it was baaaaaad! Anyway, after all that I had to counter with something fresh, hence the little crunchy bean and mushroom salad, [...]
So, you’re finally going on a date with that certain someone you like soooo much. Now all you have to do is make it memorable. You want the person to run out of adjectives when describing it to friends the next day. NOT go: “Ja, it was okay. We had pasta.” Here are some ideas you might find useful. And don’t worry, you won’t find things [...]
I don’t remember ever eating a good fruit salad in a restaurant – either the fruit are too soggy or too ..eh..raw. Yes, I know that’s the whole idea and some people love that sour, green taste. I don’t. Unless all the fruit are perfectly ripe and sweet, fruit salad usually needs some enhancement. With this, and let’s not beat around the bush, the [...]
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